How can I change permissions across multiple folders and files?
Overwrite Permissions takes the permission set of a folder and makes that the permission set for all files and sub-folders within the respective folder. If you do not choose Overwrite Permissions and instead change a single permission on a folder, only that specific change will be applied across all sub-folders and files, given that you choose the “Apply the changed permissions to this folder as well as its sub-folders and files.” option of course. For example, if you look at a folder and it has Public with no checked permissions and Users with Accounts have Read permissions and you simply take away Read access by unchecking that permission on the Permissions page for User with Accounts, you may not be accomplishing what you want. There may be a file within that folder that has Read for Public. You may think because the folder has no access permissions defined for Public, the files must also. But you can only ensure that all files within that folder have both no Public and no Users wit
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